Homunculus
Nude Descending Staircase
Seeing my own image reflected in a shattered mirror brought to mind a cubistic reference of Duchamp’s iconic masterpiece “Nude Descending A Staircase No.12". I decided to turn the concept of this painting on its head and transform it into a thoroughly narrative piece based on my own life.
On a large expanse of fiberglass mesh-my ground of preference for several years-I depicted my fractured reflection in oil and acrylic and framed it with a cacophony of autobiographical snippets, collaged documents, polaroids and smaller mixed media imagery with oil, acrylic, earth, powdered pigment and paper debris.
My left arm holds an iPhone capturing my nude body, while my raised right arm is disappears into the landscape of the skyline overlooking our home.